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Toward a Transpersonal Ecology: Developing New Foundations for Environmentalism

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Despite being an adequate and otstensibly valuable survey of the state of the (entirely self professed) Deep Ecology philosopical movement and its eco-philosophical relatives at the time of publication, Fox's argument beyond mere (but useful) descriptive summation is deficient, internally inconsistent, self contradictory and especially lacking when it comes to mapping an entirely but necessarily practical way to realise the confessed and entirely worthy ideal of identifiation.

Yes, intellectual-academia is first and foremostly about descriptive framing-contextualisation with no further substance required. Here, mission accomplished, especially and admirably done so to begin with. Nonetheless, despite promising - or at least advancing the possibility of - going further especially into identification, initial biases and self limitiations in the conception of things remains intact and indeed increases as the argument progresses. Its one thing to develop an bold and broadly compelling conception and eleaborate on it in a philosophical-intellecual manner, but an entirely different thing to introduce a 'new way of being' without adequately elaborating upon its 'actualisation' in the real world, right now. Fox introduces, criticises from a safely self-serving, internally biased self-contradictory and entirely limited-in-the-conception-of-things distance, and ultimately does not deliver.